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Josephine Tey: BBC Radio Drama Collection

by: BBC Radio 4

Publication date: 1952-02-02

Topics: Radio, Drama

Language: English

Item Size: 505.6M

BBC Radio dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey’s classic mystery novels.

Scottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey was one of the greatest Golden-Age crime writers and the author of eight mysteries, including six featuring Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these, The Daughter of Time, was acclaimed the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association. A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of this iconic story is included here, along with adaptations of four of her other much-loved mystery novels.

A Shilling for Candles

An independent-minded chief constable’s daughter meets a suspected killer in this re-imagining of Josephine Tey’s 1936 comedy thriller featuring Inspector Grant.

Tisdall - Giles Fagan,

Erica - Tilly Gaunt,

Pottinger - Steve Hodson,

Bergoine - Stephen Thorne,

Grant - Ben Crowe,

Albert Clay - Harry Myers,

Hopgood - Geoffrey Whitehead,

Martha - Frances Jeater.

Dramatised by John Fletcher.

Directed by Tabitha Potts.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.

Miss Pym Disposes

Invited by her friend Henrietta to lecture at a physical education college, expert psychologist Miss Lucy Pym little suspects that among the healthy young women is someone with a mind sick enough to commit murder….

Lucy Pym - Julia Foster,

Henrietta Hodge - Joan Sims,

Teresa Desterro - Julia Swift,

Miss Lux - Polly James,

Miss Wragg - Zelah Clarke,

Madame Lefevre - Margaret Robertson,

Fröken Gustavson - Diana Olsson,

Miss Meek - Eva Stuart,

Miss Nash - Deborah Makepeace,

Miss Innes - Moir Leslie, Miss Rouse - Susan Sheridan,

Miss O’Donnell - Felicity Hayes-McCoy,

Miss Dakers - Denica Fairman,

Miss Gage - Caroline Gruber,

Mr Nash - Michael Deacon,

Mrs Nash - Eva Stuart,

Rick - Paul Sirr.

Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud.

Directed by Glyn Dearman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987.

The Franchise Affair

A 15-year-old schoolgirl accuses Marion Sharpe and her mother of kidnapping and beating her. Can solicitor Robert Blair prove the women’s innocence?

Read by Edward Petherbridge.

Abridged by Pat McLoughlin.

Editor: Sally Feldman.

Music: Bush’s Music for Orchestra.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991.

The Daughter of Time

In hospital with a broken leg, Inspector Grant is bored. To pass the time, he decides to try and solve one of history’s most famous puzzles: did Richard II really kill the Princes in the Tower?

Alan Grant - Peter Gilmore,

Nurse Ingham - Frances Jeater,

Nurse Darroll - Jill Lidstone,

Marta Hallard - Rosalind Shanks,

Brent Carradine - Simon Hewitt,

Richard - Steve Hodson,

Tyrrel - Nigel Lambert,

Brackenbury - Lewis Stringer,

Lady Paston - Miranda Forbes,

Edward - Graham Faulkner, Matron - Katherine Parr,

Williams - Stuart Organ,

Morton - Peter Tuddenham,

Buckingham - Alex Jennings,

Stillington - James Thomason,

Sir John - Alaric Cotter.

Dramatised by Neville Teller.

Directed by Graham Gauld.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1982

The Singing Sands

Travelling to the Highlands by train, Inspector Grant ends up investigating the mysterious death of the man in compartment B7. Josephine Tey’s final novel, published posthumously in 1952.

Read by Paul Young.

Abridged by Sian Priest.

Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in March 2008.

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Reviewer: Alyosha48 - - October 9, 2022
Subject: This is writing of the highest calibre.

Exquisitely written, excellently read and performed with style and panache. If ever there were both audio drama and ‘audio book’ performed to perfection then the above are it.

My assertion that archive.org was created for preserving writing and audio performance at its very very best, then the work of Josephine Tey alone justifies its existence. Archive.org, job done, you sought, you found, and you preserved for posterity.
For that we are and will continue to be in perpetuity, *grateful*

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